Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlinologists note that the CIA failed to anticipate the sharp Soviet rejection of President Carter's sweeping arms-limitation proposals, carried to Moscow by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (the State Department itself should have foreseen this). Nor did the agency predict the political demise last month of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. Carter was annoyed at the CIA's failure to forecast the Likud coalition's upset victory in last month's Israeli election. In China, the CIA seemed surprised by the rise of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, the vilification of Madame Mao and the rehabilitation...
...late for those already tainted by a corrupt system. Discus Thrower John Powell, for one, is worried that the IRS will put pressure on Stones to tell all he knows about other athletes. Says Powell: "Stones could turn out to be the John Dean of amateur track." Others cynically predict that AAU reprisals will be selective and merely cosmetic-barring a few scapegoat athletes from competition while resisting fundamental change in the conditions that gave rise to the scandal...
...date of original hire. It also casts a shadow over new seniority systems, benefiting minorities, that have been negotiated between companies and unions; when those contracts come up for renegotiation, white unionists may argue that there is no court compulsion to keep the new systems. Some lawyers predict that another effect of the ruling will be to prompt a flood of "reverse discrimination" suits by white males claiming that they were held back so that women and blacks could catch up. The leading reverse-discrimination case, filed by a white student who was denied admission to the University of California...
Carter's proposal is in no sense a final solution; it is impossible even to predict reliably what the agency would do, or how the balance of interests in Washington would be altered. But the problem the proposal addresses--the relative over-representation of manufacturing interests in relation to those of the consuming public--will not go away by itself. While no one can say precisely what the consumer interest is, everyone agrees that it is not getting as much attention as it should be, and any new viewpoint in the stagnant imbalance of Washington interests is to be welcomed...
Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finance and administration and chairman of the search committee, said yesterday he cannot predict whether the next director will be an alumnus, adding that he thinks the committee's wishes may no longer figure into the selection process...